holy grail of oral insulin, and we would always welcome a novel delivery system for insulin. The current results on rodents are much better than I’ve seen in the past,” Zonszein said.
“But the problems we have are many,” Zonszein added. It’s hard to know how this insulin could be used because the release of the insulin is too variable, he said.
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SOURCE:
Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D., Hiller professor of bioengineering, Hansjorg Wyss professor of biologically inspired engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston; Joel Zonszein, M.D., director, Clinical Diabetes Center, University Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York City; June 25, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, online